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President Donald Trump needed to make the first general election debate about his rival, Democrat Joe Biden. Instead, as he so often does, Trump made it about himself.

President Donald Trump continued his assault on the integrity of the U.S. elections during the first presidential debate Tuesday, spreading falsehoods about the security of voting and misrepresenting issues with mail ballots.

More than 90 Haitian migrants were abandoned at sea by human traffickers as they tried to reach Panama from Colombia as part of their journey to the United States, Colombia's navy said on Tuesday.

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A top Myanmar official on Tuesday accused a militant group and its supporters of hampering the repatriation of over 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled a military crackdown in 2017 and are now in camps in Bangladesh.

A Haitian man living in Georgia pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to smuggle guns and ammunition to Haiti by hiding them in a car he planned to ship to the island, federal prosecutors said.

A former ComEd vice president pleaded guilty Tuesday to his role in what prosecutors say was a longrunning bribery conspiracy in which the energy utility sought legislative support from one of Illinois most powerful Democrats, House Speaker Michael Madiga...

Firefighters on Tuesday were battling two Northern California wildfires that have already killed three people, torched wineries and forced tens of thousands to evacuate, with hot, dry conditions expected to hamper efforts to control the blazes.

A Swedish prosecutor on Tuesday indicted on charges of aggravated assault a surgeon believed to have made headlines in 2011 for carrying out the worlds the first stemcell windpipe transplants, saying three people had laboratorymade tracheas implanted at S...

A top executive of an Indiana casino company that is building a new $400 million casino in Gary has been indicted on federal charges of illegally funneling campaign contributions to a former state lawmakers unsuccessful congressional campaign, officials a...

The deputy head of an association of Kosovo war veterans who was arrested last week on suspicion of offenses including intimidating witnesses said Tuesday he did not recognize the jurisdiction of the internationally funded court that ordered his detention...

Iran's parliament on Tuesday approved President Hassan Rouhanis nominee for trade and industry minister.

Thailand will receive its first foreign vacationers when a flight from China arrives next week, marking the gradual restart of a vital tourism sector battered by coronavirus travel curbs, a senior official said on Tuesday.

The opening of Berlin's new airport on Oct. 31 will happen without fanfare, operators say, a nod to the long delays and massive cost overrun since construction started in 2006.

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rallying Democrats to prepare for a onceinacentury election scenario requiring Congress to decide the outcome of the presidential race if neither Democrat Joe Biden nor President Donald Trump wins outr...